Firewall Contracts in Oxfordshire

Firewall
South East > Oxfordshire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Oxfordshire with a requirement for Firewall skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Firewall over the 6 months to 17 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
17 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 16 30 33
Rank change year-on-year +14 +3 -3
Contract jobs citing Firewall 8 2 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Oxfordshire 3.67% 0.88% 1.85%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 36.36% 9.52% 15.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 2 1
10th Percentile - £460 -
25th Percentile £363 £475 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £500 £350
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +42.86% +40.00%
75th Percentile £446 £525 -
90th Percentile £462 £540 -
South East median daily rate £491 £500 £495
% change year-on-year -1.75% +1.06% +7.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
Median hourly rate - - £20.00
South East median hourly rate £83.77 £62.55 £13.00
% change year-on-year +33.92% +381.15% -42.22%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Oxfordshire

Firewall is in the Communications and Computer Networking category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Oxfordshire with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 22 21 33
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Oxfordshire 10.09% 9.29% 12.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 15 25
10th Percentile £153 £213 £139
25th Percentile £266 £250 £206
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £450 £300
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +50.00% -7.69%
75th Percentile £455 £488 £490
90th Percentile £484 £525 £800
South East median daily rate £488 £485 £450
% change year-on-year +0.52% +7.78% +5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 1 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £13.00 £48.50 -
Median hourly rate £48.75 £49.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -0.51% +145.00% -60.00%
75th Percentile £65.00 £49.50 -
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate £57.35 £57.50 £21.50
% change year-on-year -0.26% +167.44% -33.85%

Firewall
Job Vacancy Trend in Oxfordshire

Job postings citing Firewall as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Oxfordshire.

Job vacancy trend for Firewall in Oxfordshire

Firewall
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Oxfordshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Firewall in Oxfordshire.

Daily rate trend for Firewall in Oxfordshire

Firewall
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Oxfordshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Firewall in Oxfordshire.

Hourly rate trend for Firewall in Oxfordshire

Firewall
Contract Job Locations in Oxfordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Firewall within the Oxfordshire region over the 6 months to 17 May 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Oxford +9 2 £400 -20.00% 2
Bicester - 1 £375 - 1
Firewall
South East

Firewall
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Oxfordshire by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Cloud Services
1 3 (37.50%) AWS
1 3 (37.50%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (25.00%) Azure
2 2 (25.00%) Cloud Computing
2 2 (25.00%) Google Workspace
2 2 (25.00%) IaaS
2 2 (25.00%) PaaS
2 2 (25.00%) SaaS
3 1 (12.50%) GCP
3 1 (12.50%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 5 (62.50%) VPN
2 4 (50.00%) LAN
2 4 (50.00%) WAN
2 4 (50.00%) Wi-Fi
3 3 (37.50%) DNS
4 2 (25.00%) Network Security
4 2 (25.00%) Wireless
5 1 (12.50%) DHCP
5 1 (12.50%) IP Telephony
General
1 3 (37.50%) Public Sector
1 3 (37.50%) Social Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Military
2 1 (12.50%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) Network Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) 3rd Line Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Senior
2 2 (25.00%) Senior Network Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Cybersecurity Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Security Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Wintel Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (12.50%) Life Science
1 1 (12.50%) Management Information System
1 1 (12.50%) Operational Technology
1 1 (12.50%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 4 (50.00%) Windows
1 4 (50.00%) Windows Server
2 1 (12.50%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (37.50%) Information Security
1 3 (37.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 3 (37.50%) Patch Management
2 2 (25.00%) Creative Thinking
2 2 (25.00%) Infrastructure Management
2 2 (25.00%) Network Monitoring
2 2 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (25.00%) Server Management
3 1 (12.50%) Antivirus Management
3 1 (12.50%) Capacity Planning
3 1 (12.50%) Computer Science
3 1 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (12.50%) Cyber Assurance
3 1 (12.50%) Cybersecurity
3 1 (12.50%) High Availability
3 1 (12.50%) Incident Response
3 1 (12.50%) Information Management
3 1 (12.50%) Security Patching
3 1 (12.50%) SIEM
3 1 (12.50%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (25.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (12.50%) CCNA
2 1 (12.50%) CCNP
2 1 (12.50%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (12.50%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (12.50%) CTC Cleared
2 1 (12.50%) Degree
2 1 (12.50%) DV Cleared
2 1 (12.50%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) GDPR
System Software
1 2 (25.00%) Active Directory
1 2 (25.00%) VMware ESXi
1 2 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (12.50%) Firmware
2 1 (12.50%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 2 (25.00%) FortiGate
1 2 (25.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 4 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 4 (50.00%) VMware
2 3 (37.50%) Cisco
3 2 (25.00%) Aruba
3 2 (25.00%) Google
3 2 (25.00%) HP
3 2 (25.00%) Meraki
3 2 (25.00%) Sophos
4 1 (12.50%) Fortinet
4 1 (12.50%) Palo Alto